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In our hearts, if not in our heads, we’re convinced that love will always trump practical concerns such as money, social class, race and even gender. And what about age as it relates to older women involved with younger men?

Though men have been enjoying May-December romances forever, women haven’t been afforded the same freedom necessarily.

Actor Hugh Jackman has been married to Deborra-Lee Furness for 17 years. A recent article in magazine looked at a handful of real-life May-December romances, focusing mainly on those between older women and younger men.

The age gaps spanned anywhere from 10 to 14 years, with women in their late 40s and early 50s enjoying relationships and/or marriage with men in their late 20s or 30s. Couples in this situation had to address the fertility concern head-on, with some choosing to take the leap relatively quickly while others took a pass.

But that does not mean ALL Christian men should avoid marrying Christian feminists, anymore than ALL men should avoid marrying older women.

The church is beautifully diverse, and every couple is different, which is why these lists are limited in their helpfulness.

Instead, I hope you will do this work of discernment in community, with the direction of Scripture and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

God created unique image bearers, not categories, which is why I am SO grateful for the community counsel and the Holy Spirit vision that allowed me to see my husband not as a “younger man,” but as the man of God that he is.

He isn’t the guy who has to “prove” how strong or smart or manly he is.He is not the same man that he was when we met, and neither am I. That’s why I both sympathize with yet reject the advice not to marry an older woman.On the one hand, the difference between a 20 year-old man and a 25 year-old woman can be significant.A few weeks ago I came across a blog post titled 10 Women Christian Men Should Not Marry. It advised against marrying women who are not followers of Christ, as well as women who love to gossip or slander. As for the rest of the list, I cannot agree with much of it–mostly because his “types” are only bad stereotypes, which isn’t very helpful.However, I was surprised and then a little bit tickled when I discovered this type of women at #3: “The Older Woman.” Under this category, the author explained that marrying an older woman is not a sin, but it’s also not “God’s ideal.” He goes on to reason that it “requires an extra measure of grace to lead a woman who’s older than you.”As his scriptural justification he cited Adam and Eve: “God intentionally (with good reason! Scripture informs us that God created man first chronologically for the sake of authority!

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